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Month: April 2019

Garden Room: Transforming an Urban Mumbai Apartment into a Lush Oasis

Just looking at the photos of these interiors, where would you guess this unusual verdant living space is located? The English countryside, maybe, or a rural land project full of experimental ...

Rock’n Rolls: Retro Toilet Paper Roll Holder Radios

Don't touch that dial... these weird 70s bathroom music machines combined the utility of a toilet paper roll holder with the sweet sound of an AM radio. Audio Waste Land A visit to one's ...

Redesigning Notre Dame for a New Era with a Greenhouse Roof

It seems like proposals to restore the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris came pouring in before the blaze that destroyed its spire and roof was even extinguished. Grappling with devastating damage to ...

Urban Hacking 101: Guides & Tutorials to Transform your City

If your city isn't meeting your needs, just hack it. Urban hacktivism is a form of creative, citizen-led problem solving that often goes behind the backs of officials and institutions to get ...

Stonehenge Secrets? MIT’s 25-Ton Boulders Can Be Moved By Hand

Enormous monolithic structures weighing as much as 25 tons are tilted, rotated and wiggled across a room by a single person in a new experiment by researchers at MIT, giving us a look into how ...

Footloose: Canada’s Abandoned Bata Shoe Factory

The former Bata shoe factory in "Batawa" – a company town located in southern Ontario – forged fine footwear for footloose Canucks from 1939 to the year 2000. Kickoff The Bata Shoe ...

Funorama: Bouncy Rainbow Net Suspended Above a Paris Shopping Center

Shoppers at Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann can climb to new heights within the building’s domed atrium, bouncing around on a suspended rainbow net and gazing up at the stained glass cupola. ...

Mondrian Lives On: The Artist’s Influence on Architecture & Design

How is it that a simple, abstract composition of black and white grids and primary colors has touched our collective psyche so deeply? Dutch-born artist Piet Mondrian created some of the most ...

Green Spaceship: Vegetated Library to Land in Madrid’s Villaverde

Using a constantly changing screen of ivy as a passive solar device, a new library planned for Madrid takes on a shape that’s out of this world. Architecture firm 3GATTI calls the unusual ...

Class Inaction: Eerie Abandoned Virginia High School

Central High School in Painter, Virginia was abandoned in 2005 but the 88-year-old red brick building still exudes plenty of Art Deco style and class. Hollowed Halls The Eastern Shore of ...

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